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U.S. patent number D716,781 [Application Number D/416,592] was granted by the patent office on 2014-11-04 for cover. This patent grant is currently assigned to Apple Inc.. The grantee listed for this patent is Bartley K. Andre, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Douglas B. Satzger, Vincent Keane Seid, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zorkendorfer. Invention is credited to Bartley K. Andre, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Douglas B. Satzger, Calvin Q. Seid, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zorkendorfer.
| United States Patent | D716,781 |
| Andre , et al. | November 4, 2014 |
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Claims
CLAIM The ornamental design for a cover, as shown and described.
| Inventors: | Andre; Bartley K. (Menlo Park, CA), Coster; Daniel J. (San Francisco, CA), De Iuliis; Daniele (San Francisco, CA), Howarth; Richard P. (San Francisco, CA), Ive; Jonathan P. (San Francisco, CA), Kerr; Duncan Robert (San Francisco, CA), Nishibori; Shin (Kailua, HI), Rohrbach; Matthew Dean (San Francisco, CA), Russell-Clarke; Peter (San Francisco, CA), Satzger; Douglas B. (Menlo Park, CA), Seid; Calvin Q. (Palo Alto, CA), Stringer; Christopher J. (Woodside, CA), Whang; Eugene Antony (San Francisco, CA), Zorkendorfer; Rico (San Francisco, CA) | ||||||||||
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| Assignee: | Apple Inc. (Cupertino,
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| Appl. No.: | D/416,592 | ||||||||||
| Filed: | March 23, 2012 |
Related U.S. Patent Documents
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| 29396158 | Jun 27, 2011 | D656495 | |||
| 29365747 | Jul 14, 2010 | D642169 | |||
| 29343324 | Aug 31, 2010 | D622716 | |||
| 29281500 | Dec 29, 2009 | D606751 | |||
| Current U.S. Class: | D14/250 |
| Current International Class: | 1403 |
| Field of Search: | ;D14/250-253,440,203.3-203.7,217,496,248,238.1,432,439,341-347 ;D3/201,218,269,301,273,303 ;D13/103,107-108,119 ;220/4.02 ;248/309.1 ;361/679.56 ;379/426,433.11,455 ;455/575.1,575.8 ;190/100 ;206/305,320 |
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Primary Examiner: Wright; Carla Jobe
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
Description
FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of a cover showing our new design, with an environmental electronic device shown removed from the cover;
FIG. 2 is a front perspective view thereof, shown without the environmental electronic device;
FIG. 3 is a rear perspective view thereof;
FIG. 4 is a front view thereof;
FIG. 5 is a rear view thereof;
FIG. 6 is a left side view thereof;
FIG. 7 is right side view thereof;
FIG. 8 is a top plan view thereof; and,
FIG. 9 is a bottom plan view thereof.
In the drawings, the dot-dash broken lines immediately adjacent a shaded surface represent a boundary of the claimed design. All other dot-dash broken lines depict an unclaimed electronic device. All dash-dash broken lines, including the dash-dash contour lines on the interior of the cover, depict unclaimed portions of the cover. The interior of the cover is unclaimed. All broken lines form no part of the claimed design.
Examples of an electronic device with which the cover may be used are a computer, a portable or hand-held device, a personal digital assistant, a communication device (e.g., cellular phone), a novelty item, toy, and/or the like.
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